Ninety Cents Butter
Ninety Cents Butter

Ninety Cents Butter easy guitar chords by Oscar Brand

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Fret 2

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    • Verse 1
    Come 
    everybody, 
    listen while 
    I 
    sing 

    This high 
    cost 
    of living 
    is 
    a 
    terrible 
    thing 

    Every 
    day you 
    go 
    in
    to 
    a 
    store 

    Prices 
    hit the 
    ceiling 
    just a 
    little 
    bit more 

    You 
    buy 
    a piece 
    of 
    bread 

    and some 
    corned 
    beef hash 

    All 
    you 
    got left 
    is 
    petty 
    cash 

    Look 
    at your dollar 
    now, 
    what 
    do you see? 

    It's 
    only 
    half 
    as 
    big 
    as it 
    used 
    to be 

    90 
    cents 
    butter 
    and 
    90 
    cents 
    meat 

    How 
    in 
    the heck 
    can 
    a poor 

    man 
    eat? 

    Wintertime 
    comes, 

    there's 
    a Dickens 
    to pay. 

    Food 
    goes 
    up 
    in the 
    same 
    old 
    way. 

    Cold 
    gettin' 
    higher 
    and 
    the 

    kids 
    gotta 
    dress. 

    How you 
    gonna 
    do 
    it is 

    anybody's 
    guess. 

    Even 
    the bugs 
    in 
    the 
    kitchen 
    sink. 

    I 
    pick 
    it in 
    the pantry 
    for 
    food 
    and 
    drink. 

    If 
    I 
    don't 
    get 
    clothes 
    and 
    food 
    to boot, 

    I'll 
    starve 
    to death 
    in 
    my 
    birthday 
    suit. 

    Cause 
    90 
    cents 
    butter 
    and 
    90 
    cents 
    meat. 

    How 
    in 
    the heck 
    can 
    a 
    poor 
    man 
    eat? 

    I 
    tell 
    you folks, 
    you work 
    hard 
    all your 
    life, 

    Sup
    portin' 
    your kids 
    and 

    some
    times 
    your 
    wife. 

    Things 
    gettin' 
    higher, 

    kinda 
    feelin' 
    sick, 

    Somethin' 
    gotta 
    hap
    pen 
    and 
    it gotta 

    happen 
    quick. 

    Your congressman's 
    workin' 

    hard 
    every 
    day, 

    Figurin' 
    out 
    how to 
    cut 
    down 
    your pay. 

    Gotta 
    give 
    that boy 
    somethin' 

    to remember 

    When 
    you 
    meet 
    him at 
    the polls 

    some 
    cold 
    November. 

    One 
    ninety 
    cents 
    butter 
    and 

    ninety 
    cents 
    meat, 

    How 
    in 
    the heck 
    can 
    a 
    poor 
    man 
    eat? 

    You 
    remember 
    the days 

    when 
    butter 
    and meat 

    Was 
    the 
    natural 
    food 
    for folk
    s to 
    eat. 

    I 
    never 
    had 
    much 
    as I 
    now 
    recall, 

    But 
    nowadays 
    I'm 
    lucky 
    when 
    I eat 
    at all. 

    I'm 
    living 
    in 
    the hope 
    I'll 
    eat someday 

    Before 
    my 
    body 
    just 
    wastes 
    away. 

    If they 
    don't 
    cut the 
    price 

    of 
    a 
    piece 
    of cow 

    Ain't 
    gonna 
    linger, 
    I'll 
    starve 
    right 
    now. 

    With 
    ninety 
    cents 
    but
    ter 

    and 
    ninety 
    cents 
    meat 

    How 
    in 
    the heck 
    can 
    a 
    poor 
    man 
    eat? 

    And 
    when 
    you go 
    and ask 
    them 

    the 
    cause 
    of it all 

    They 
    hand 
    you a 
    line about 
    ten 
    foot tall 

    Moan 
    and 
    groan 
    and 

    tear 
    their hair 
    about 

    The 
    high 
    cost 
    of being 
    a 
    millionaire 

    Take 
    a 
    full -page 
    ad 
    in the 

    evening 
    news

    They 
    blame 
    it on 
    Negroes 

    and 
    Reds 
    and Jew
    s 

    Well, 
    I was 
    born 
    in 
    the bushes, 

    I 
    was 
    raised 
    in 
    the woods 

    They 
    can't 
    sell 
    me 
    that 
    line 
    of 
    goods 

    Ninety 
    cents 
    butter 
    and 
    ninety 
    cents 
    peas 

    How 
    in 
    the heck 
    can 
    a poor 
    man 
    eat? 


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